Eleven quotes from Stranger Things

Eleven. I have been looking for you for a very long time. My name is...

Eleven

Dr. Kay. I know who you are. I know who you've taken. And I also know... that you and your men... are going to die.

Will

I… I… I haven’t told any of you this because… Because I… I don’t… I don’t want you to see me differently. But the truth is… The… The truth is I am. I am different. I just… I just pretended like I wasn’t because… because I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and… And I am like you. I’m like you in… in almost every way. We… We like playing D&D late into the night. And we like that old-person smell in Mike’s basement. And we… we like biking to Melvald’s for malted milkshakes. And we like getting lost in the woods, and getting lost in Family Video and arguing about what to rent and settling on Holy Grail for the millionth time. And… And we like Milk Duds in our popcorn with extra butter. And we like drinking Coke with Pop Rocks. And we like bike races and trading comics and NASA and Steve Martin and Lucky Charms and… Literally all the same things. I just… I just… I… I just… I… I… I… I don’t like girls. I mean… I mean I do. Just… Just not like you guys do. And I, uh, I had this… this crush on someone, even though I know… I know they’re not like me. But… But then I realized he’s just my Tammy. And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. It was… It was about me. And I thought I was finally okay with myself, but… but then today… Today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, if I told you guys the truth. He showed me a future, and in this future, some of you are just… are just worried for me. Worried that things will be harder for me. And it just makes me feel like something’s wrong with me. So I… So I push you away. And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more and more and more and more and more until I’m alone. And I know none of that has happened, and Vecna can’t see into the future. But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. And it just felt so real. It felt so real.

Joyce

Will. You gotta listen to me. That will never ever happen. You’ll never lose me. Ever.

Will

Okay. Okay.

Jonathan

And you’ll never lose me. [goes to hug him]

Lucas

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Dustin

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Mike

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Eleven

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Robin

Or me.

Robin

Guess you didn’t need truth serum, huh?

Max

Sorry. This sucks, but you’re gonna have to hug me.

Will

Oh, Max. [goes to hug her]

Max

Just imagine I’m hugging you really tight, okay?

Will

Okay. [lets go of hug] El. I know you’re strong enough to defeat Vecna. But he can retreat to the physical world, and we need to be ready to fight him there too. We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. I need to be there. And I’m ready. I’m ready to show him I’m not afraid anymore.

Eleven

If I'm alive, then so is Henry. I have to end the cycle.

You will, you will. But not like this. Not with more violence. Not with more pain. There's already been so much pain. From the moment you were born. Your mother was taken from you. Your childhood was taken from you. You've been attacked. Manipulated by terrible people. Life has been so unfair to you, so cruel. But you never let it break you. And I need you to fight, kid. I need you to fight just one last time. Fight for the days on the other side of this. Fight for... for a world beyond Hawkins. Fight for that day that you have a kid of your own, and you give her the life that you never had. For the day you get so angry because she invites some boy over, and she won't keep the door open three inches. I know. I know you don't believe you can have any of this. But I promise you we will find a way to make it real. You will find a way to make it real. Because you have to. Because you deserve it.

Mike

You... You have to get out of there! You have to get out!

Eleven

None of this will ever end, not if I'm still here.

Mike

No, no, no. We'll figure something out. We'll figure something out, we'll fight back. We always do.

Eleven

I need you to talk to the others.

Mike

No. No, no!

Eleven

I need you to thank them for me. For being so kind to me. And teaching me what it means to be a friend.

Mike

No! Please don't do this. Please don't do this!

Eleven

Mike, I need you to help them understand my choice.

Mike

But I don't-- I don't understand!

Eleven

I know. But you will. One day, you will. You understand me. Better than anyone. You always have. From the day we met... you've seen me.

Mike

Please don't leave me, El. Please don't do this.

Eleven

I will always be with you. I love you.

Eleven

Goodbye, Mike.